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A great song from late 1980. Donnie Iris was also part of, The Jaggerz, and had a hit with the song, "The Rapper", in 1970.
1 posted on 08/01/2022 11:17:35 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

...and this crap has relevance to .....WHAT?


2 posted on 08/02/2022 12:05:12 AM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: DallasBiff

Love the song.

I was in college, Reagan was president, the Cold War was on, and Jimmy Carter was out. Men were men and women were women, and had little bodies and big hair, and leftist hippies were drug fried brain dead and relatively harmless who like us all, just wanted to be left alone, something we could all agree on.

It was a different world then.


3 posted on 08/02/2022 12:46:38 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: DallasBiff

He also sang for Wild Cherry, but not on their hits.


4 posted on 08/02/2022 1:35:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DallasBiff

Good one. I was thinking of this song for a few weeks recently, trying to remember the name of the song and singer, but all I could remember was the rhythm. I was always humming, “ahhhh leeeee, ahhhh” in my head, but had no idea that I might have found it with a search for that, so I didn’t even bother. Thanks for clearing that up. How serendipitous…again. Weird!


5 posted on 08/02/2022 1:38:40 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: DallasBiff

Always liked this song.

I never saw the video until now, though. It’s terrible. lol


6 posted on 08/02/2022 2:07:25 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: DallasBiff

Good way to start the day.👍
Kind of had a “Cars” feel to the song.


7 posted on 08/02/2022 2:24:04 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: DallasBiff

Great trivia! The Rapper was one of my favorite songs to roller skate to when I was a kid. Roller rink on Friday nights, so much fun. I had no idea that Donnie Iris was a member of that group.


8 posted on 08/02/2022 3:07:58 AM PDT by tuffydoodle (When 2% of the country gets to tell everyone else how to live, that’s true oppression.)
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To: DallasBiff

Video is cheesy but that’s part of what made the 80s so great. Good song. I’d give anything to go back to the early 80s. I really hate what the left has turned this country into, when it used to be so great. They didn’t destroy this country by accident. They did it on purpose.


10 posted on 08/02/2022 3:34:03 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: DallasBiff

This popped up while I was still at the diploma mill. I was/am no fan of “Iris,” but the single was catchy and I thought the album cover was a quirky hoot.


11 posted on 08/02/2022 3:42:13 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: DallasBiff

Dahhny Iris! If you don’t like him you must be a jagoff.

(Pittsburgheze)


12 posted on 08/02/2022 7:05:22 AM PDT by jdsteel (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: DallasBiff
He was also a member of Wild Cherry, who had a hit with "Play that Funky Music".
13 posted on 08/02/2022 9:45:09 AM PDT by Kazan
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